The Lagos State Police Command has arrested four women for allegedly
abducting and selling a nine-year-old girl, identified simply as
Blessing, for N650,000.
The women are Fausat Ogidan, Abibat Oresanya, Bola Obajuruwa and Idiyat Abass.
According to Punch, Ogidan, who was with the nine-year-old girl, and
collected the sum on behalf of others, was arrested in the Gbagada area
of Lagos.The 51-year-old woman, who is married with four children, had
arranged to sell the girl and on that Sunday.The girl was given to
Ogidan by Obajuruwa, commonly known as Iya Alaje, who lives in the
Suberu Street, Alakuko area of Lagos.
Iya Alaje also confessed that she had told Ogidan to sell the girl for N350,000 before she was caught.
She said,